- People -- Introduction
- Living Memorials: Acts of Social Meaning Create Places of Resilience
- People's Relationship with Trees
- Lessons from the Field: Living Memorial Stewards
Christy Knight
Consultant to US Forest Service NYC Metro Initiative
Community Mapping Assistance Project
Christy Knight is the Community Mapping Assistance Project GIS Maping Analyst and Web Designer. She joined CMAP's staff in November 1999. Before joining CMAP, Christy spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, where she taught English and cartography to university students. She holds a masters degree in geography from the University of Kansas and a bachelors degree in geography from Kansas State, and has extensive experience with computer mapping and graphic design.
Knight’s maps have appeared in: New York Magazine, City Limits, The New York Times, news conferences held by clients such as the NYC Public Advocate’s office, NYPIRG’s Straphangers Campaign, and the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; and reports, brochures, websites, and other publications used by more than two dozen client groups. Knight has also worked with NYPIRG’s graphic design team to develop the web interfaces for the OASIS, CENYC, and Sustainable Long Island interactive mapping services, CMAP’s website and the Living Memorials website.
